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South Africa’s 1st data journalism bootcamp is offering free seats to 30 journalists and 30 developers / coders who want to help reinvent the way that the media works.

The 3-day event, at HighwayAfrica in Grahamstown, will be led by an international team of experts from Google, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the UK's Citywire, and Upande.

Participants will learn how to find, extract, and analyse public data, using powerful forensic tools, to tell better informed stories. They will also work in teams to build news-driven mobile apps and civic engagement websites, to augment traditional news reportage.

The best projects will win $1,500, as seed grants, to turn prototypes into real newsroom products.

Resources

Get unprecedented access to South African Census, economic & labour datasets from StatsSA

Learn to use the new openAFRICA portal for finding and analysing powerful 'watchdog' data

PARTNERS

This bootcamp forms part of the ujuzi digital skills programme, and has been made possible through support from the following partners:

Our Mission

To boost analytical, evidence-based reportage across Africa by giving journalists the digital tools, access to data, and computational skills necessary for transforming the way that newsrooms function.